Posts made in November, 2009




El Tubo Bar by Felipe Assadi and Franciesca Pulido Architects 00

El Tubo Bar by Felipe Assadi and Franciesca Pulido Architects

El Tubo Bar by Felipe Assadi and Franciesca Pulido Architects

00

[dc]T[/dc]his amazing modern bar design in Lima, Peru features a number of unique and totally unconventional elements that really make it stand out. El Tubo Bar created by Felipe Assadi and Franciesca Pulido and is located in Lima, Peru. The bar is sited in the old and semi abandoned Puericultorio Perez aranibar building, which was dated 1820, built to house an orphanage. The space which had to...

House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: 300 Designer Favorites (House Beautiful Series) 00

House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: 300 Designer Favorites (House Beautiful Series)

House Beautiful Colors for Your Home: 300 Designer Favorites (House Beautiful Series)

00

What transforms a room from monotone to magical? Color! So, if you’re nervous about splashing that white with bright, this conveniently portable primer based on House Beautiful’s most popular column will help. With special insider advice from top designers, plus a directory of actual paint swatches, this book is the most comprehensive and appealing color resource available today. All...

Ranches of the American West by Linda Leigh Paul 00

Ranches of the American West by Linda Leigh Paul

Ranches of the American West by Linda Leigh Paul

00

The American ranch embodies a rich architectural tradition that has been passed down through generations of ranchers. This book presents twenty-five of the most spectacular Western ranches, including important historical structures and those designed for today’s newest ranch owners. With three hundred newly commissioned color photographs of ranches in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,...

Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions 00

Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions

Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions

00

The title suggests that only apartment dwellers would benefit from this book. However, Gillingham-Ryan covers much more with 40 dwellings ranging in size from a 325-square-foot apartment to a 2,200-square-foot ranch home that he assembled from three years’ worth of House Tours—a feature of his web site, ApartmentTherapy.com. Each includes an introduction to the inhabitants and...

Atomic Ranch : Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes 00

Atomic Ranch : Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes

Atomic Ranch : Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes

00

At the close of World War II, during a time when the United States was suffused with optimism about the future, America began a love affair with the ranch house that lasted for the next twenty-five years. From the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs and Sarasota, Florida, to the unassuming brick or...

Christmas Decorating Ideas by Ideal Home 00

Christmas Decorating Ideas by Ideal Home

Christmas Decorating Ideas by Ideal Home

00

Traditional dining table, Make sure you have enough chairs, lay a heatproof cloth along the centre to protect the surface, and decorate the table with traditional red and white linen. Set a festive table, Prepare your dining room for a feast with table settings and decorations in berry red and white. Just add silver and crystal details for extra sparkle and hang...

Interior Design of Barburrito 00

Interior Design of Barburrito

Interior Design of Barburrito

00

[dc]B[/dc]arburrito is a refreshing alternative to the dirge of modern high-streets, the ‘Fast Food’ outlet. There’s times we all need a quick on-the-go bite to eat, but so often the choices are repulsive enough to leave us going hungry, that’s why we’re so excited about Morgan Davies and Paul Kilpatrick’s delicious brainchild, a no frills, stylish homage to classic Mexican street...

Fairfield House by Webber + Studio, Inc 00

Fairfield House by Webber + Studio, Inc

Fairfield House by Webber + Studio, Inc

00

David Webber, AIA, of the Austin-based firm Webber + Studio, jokes that the house in Austin’s Hyde Park neighborhood that he designed for himself and Ransom Baldasare, his business and life partner, is really just like everyone else’s. “It has everything anyone asks for when they’re looking for a new house: five bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a kitchen open to living and dining areas,...

Nell Hill’s Christmas At Home by Mary Carol Garrity 00

Nell Hill’s Christmas At Home by Mary Carol Garrity

Nell Hill’s Christmas At Home by Mary Carol Garrity

00

Nell Hill’s Christmas At Home The town of Atchison, Kansas, is never busier than at Christmastime. It is during this season that the acclaimed Nell Hill’s home decorating emporium is transformed into a magical space where old meets new, formal meets frivolous, and imagination is key. Now you can bring that spirit into your home for the holidays. In Nell Hill’s...

The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place by Carley Roney 00

The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place by Carley Roney

The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place by Carley Roney

00

The Nest Home Design Handbook: Simple ways to decorate, organize, and personalize your place Roney, editor in chief of TheNest.com and cofounder of TheKnot.com, has created a practical guide aimed at the amateur decorator. Color photographs show kitchens, living rooms, dens, bedrooms, baths, and home offices in a modern, uncluttered style, with advice on how to approach interior...

Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan 00

Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

00

Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure From not enough space and too many things to not knowing what color to paint the living room walls, many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV’s Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and fans to transform...

Bungalow Style by Treena M Crochet 00

Bungalow Style by Treena M Crochet

Bungalow Style by Treena M Crochet

00

Bungalow Style The classic American bungalow is as popular today as when introduced in the Victorian era. Bungalow Style pictures a wide variety of interior details and describes how to add or restore elements that suggest a historic flair while keeping the home comfortable and functional. Common problems such as integrating modern conveniences or gaining needed space are also...

In House by Mitchell Owens 00

In House by Mitchell Owens

In House by Mitchell Owens

00

In House by Mitchell Owens In House celebrates some of the world’s most striking and eccentric rooms, beautifully captured by Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda and a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and Nest magazines, who for nearly thirty-five years has inimitably photographed unique, style-setting houses. Richly diverse in style and period, what these...

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker by Suzanne Tucker 00

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker by Suzanne Tucker

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker by Suzanne Tucker

00

Rooms to Remember: The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age and...

Not So Big House Coll-2cy by Sarah Susanka 00

Not So Big House Coll-2cy by Sarah Susanka

Not So Big House Coll-2cy by Sarah Susanka

00

Not So Big House Coll-2cy (Susanka) Sarah Susanka’s best-selling books, The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House, are available for the first time in one slipcase set. These two volumes offer all of Sarah Susanka’s trendsetting architectural ideas in one handsome package. “The rooms pictured in the book are both practical and lovely” Buy...

The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less by Mitchell Gold, Bob Williams 00

The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less by Mitchell Gold, Bob Williams

The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less by Mitchell Gold, Bob Williams

00

The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well for Less Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams know that the key to comfort is how you set up your home. For two decades, their home furnishings have been synonymous with relaxed style. For them, comfort and beauty work in concert; they are never opposing ideals. Gold and Williams’s elegant collection of home furnishings...

Saxo Bank by 3XN Architects 00

Saxo Bank by 3XN Architects

Saxo Bank by 3XN Architects

00

[dc]S[/dc]axo Bank is a young dynamic internet bank with focus on online-trade with currencies, shares and futures on the bank’s self-developed platform, Saxo Trader. Saxo Bank was founded in 1992 in Denmark and counts around 850 staff members of 35 nationalities who serve customers from 115 different countries. Saxo Bank’s new headquarter in Copenhagen is designed by 3XN. Although the...

Jacques Grange: Interiors by Pierre Passebon 00

Jacques Grange: Interiors by Pierre Passebon

Jacques Grange: Interiors by Pierre Passebon

00

Jacques Grange: Interiors Combining good taste and audacity is a subtle art that interior designer Jacques Grange has perfected for over four decades. As a young man working for design legends Henri Samuel and then Didier Aaron, his talent was soon recognized by the likes of the Rothschilds, Madeleine Castaing, and the Vicomtesse de Noailles. Unlike many of his contemporaries,...

The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life by Mary Miers 00

The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life by Mary Miers

The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life by Mary Miers

00

The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (Country Life Magazine) The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries—from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm—brought to life through the world-renowned...

Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home by Elizabeth Helman Minchilli, Domenico Minchilli 00

Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home by Elizabeth Helman Minchilli, Domenico Minchilli

Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home by Elizabeth Helman Minchilli, Domenico Minchilli

00

Italian Rustic: How to Bring Tuscan Charm into Your Home A celebration of Tuscan farmhouse style, with practical advice on how to bring the look home. For anyone who has ever dreamed of living under the Tuscan sun, Italian Rustic is the next best thing—a step-by-step guide to recreating the romance and appeal of the weathered Italian farmhouse. This nuts-and-bolts guide to building...

Glamour: Making it Modern by Michael Lassell 00

Glamour: Making it Modern by Michael Lassell

Glamour: Making it Modern by Michael Lassell

00

Glamour: Making it Modern Glamour. Itís hard to define yet most know it when they see it. Today, glamour may still invoke the sophistication and refinement of the golden years of Hollywood art deco, but country, industrial and even nature glamour have joined the more traditional modes. The 21st century has brought glamouróand her sisters, decoration and ornamentationóback into home...

Nancy Corzine : Glamour at Home by Nancy Corzine, Robert Janjigian 00

Nancy Corzine : Glamour at Home by Nancy Corzine, Robert Janjigian

Nancy Corzine : Glamour at Home by Nancy Corzine, Robert Janjigian

00

Nancy Corzine: Glamour at Home Glamour at Home is an inspirational design primer from Nancy Corzine, a celebrated and respected name in the fields of furnishings, textiles, and interior design. Corzine’s interiors reflect an elegant and sophisticated approach to life that conjures up classic Hollywood style. Her assemblages of mirrored vanities, silk-covered chaise lounges, and...

Design Rules: The Insider’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator by Elaine Griffin 00

Design Rules: The Insider’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator by Elaine Griffin

Design Rules: The Insider’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator by Elaine Griffin

00

Design Rules: The Insider’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator Many design books are filled with lavish photography of perfect rooms that most of us can only dream of re-creating. Without any practical advice, the look is unattainable. That’s where Design Rules comes in. Here, Elaine Griffin, one of the country’s 100 top designers (House Beautiful), explains all the...

Restoring a House in the City by Ingrid Abramovitch 00

Restoring a House in the City by Ingrid Abramovitch

Restoring a House in the City by Ingrid Abramovitch

00

Restoring a House in the City How to turn an old home into a jewel on the block. What do a fashion mogul, a Williams-Sonoma executive, a museum curator, and a design-savvy actress have in common? Good taste, of course, but more than that: a shared passion to “bring back,” to carefully restore and artfully embellish, their houses. They are among the twenty-one real-life...